This is going to be a lot of everything from now on (4/12) since life has changed so drastically in the last few years.

August 28, 2008

Potholder swap..

WOW! What an absolute sweetheart are you!Sharecropper sent me a beautiful pair of hand made earrings in a beautiful coral color, a fave of mine! a giant clear red Clothes pin I will be adding a magnet to and putting on fridge, 2 beautiful and thick potholders that we all got a sneak peak of on her blog... and the pictures do them NO justice at all, they are very nice and very plush!Then I also scored from her trip to Pisgah... are you sitting down... she sent me 2 cotton pounder's in baby pink (already using it for a baby feet cloth) and light grape, 4 skeins of double worsted weight cotton in pastel pink (hmmmm, thinking abi's slippers maybe), 1 skein each color of the double worsted weight cotton in Shrimp, burnt orange, shocking pink, rose pink, Lt purple and daisy ombre, 3 fat skeins of a beautiful rainbowishombre mill ends, 1 of light pink, peach ombre and a small one of dark rose, a bag of mill ends (1 lb ?) in variegated pinks n purples AND 3 skeins of Red Heart Sport yarn in Red, Black and White . ooooohhhhh and smarties candies!!! What a score! Thank you so much sharecropper! Did I say WOW yet???

Free Crochet Pattern.....

Cotton Dish Sponges

Peaches and creme or sugar n cream worsted weight cotton and a G or H hookROW 1:Chain 20, sc in 2nd chain from hook and in every other chain , turnROW 2-7:ch 2 and HDC in each stitch to end, now just turn and HDC in each remaining chain down the other side.this will make a pocket purse type shape and just use a SC in each stitch to close it up.ROW 8: ch 1 SC, HDC, SC in same stitch, sk next 2 spaces and do a sc, hdc, sc in every 3rd space around.Adjust any you need to make sure the shell trim goes all the way around. I have also made these with up to 30 chains to start for a bigger cotton sponge.